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How to parent healthy siblings when one child needs everything

My other children barely get my attention because their brother with epilepsy needs constant monitoring and I see them growing up without me really being present.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Limited parental resources create an impossible mathematics of attention that threatens family cohesion.

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